[WikiEN-l] Rootology's new site

[George Herbert]

On 6/28/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:04:25 -0400, "Ron Ritzman" <ritzman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >These are the people who are claiming they were "abused" when the only
> >thing that happened to them was that they were prevented from doing
> >"X" on Wikipedia which is "just a website". How does this compare with
> >people who suffer real abuse in real life?
>
> Indeed.  And in most cases X is self-promotion.  But there are cases
> where long-term trends in admin actions could do with critiquing, and
> I don't mind being the subject of such a critique.  It is not
> especially surprising that the contributions thus far are mainly from
> frustrated vanity spammers, since frustrating vanity spammers is one
> of the things I am known for.  Rootology does seem to want to rise
> above the level of assuming that every action not backed by three
> months of ArbCom deliberation is necessarily evil.
>
> That said, we can already identify Gregory Kohs, Jonathan Barber and
> Jon Awbrey laying out their grudges for all the world to see yet
> again.

...And, so far, some effort made to ameliorate that.

It does give me hope that we can get a functional external
critic/gadfly site which is working with a reasonable set of
assumptions.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com